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Poetic Forms in the Masoretic Vocalization and Three Difficult Phrases in Jacob’s Blessing: יתר שאת (Gen 49:3), 49:4 ( יצועי עלה), and 49:10 ( יבא שילה)
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A poet’s biblical exegesis.
(Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003-01)The Jewish Quarterly Review, XCIII, Nos. 3-4 (January-April, 2003) 533-556 Review Essay A POET'S BIBLICAL EXEGESIS1 Mordechai Z. Cohen, Yeshiva University Paul Fenton. Philosophie et exégèse dans le Jardin de la métaphore ... -
Polemic, exegesis, philosophy, and science: Reflections on the tenacity of Ashkenazic modes of thought
(Stuttgart : Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, c2002-, 2008)The presumed absence or near-absence of what we usually call rationalism in medieval Ashkenaz raises a series of questions large and small: If rationalism is in fact absent or largely absent, what accounts for this, ... -
The Popularization of Jewish Legal and Customary Literature in Germanic Lands during the Thirteenth Century
(Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014)Coming on the heels of the eleventh century. during which the rabbinic literature produced by the leading Ashkenazic talmudic academies at Mainz and Worms was generally brief and oflen fragmentary, owing both to the ... -
A Portrait of Spinoza
Warren Zev Harvey wrote a bold and now famous paper over thirty years ago entitle "A Portrait of Spinoza as a Maimonidean," defending the dominant influence of the philosophy of the medieval Jewish philosopher Moses ... -
Postscript : Reflections after Twenty Years
(Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2016-10-17)This Holy Place was a step in a journey that began in my teen years and has continued ever since. It reflects learning that commenced even before I entered the university and that continued as I—then a nice third-generation ... -
The Practices of the Land of Egypt (Lev. 18:3): Incest, ʿAnat, and Israel in the Egypt of Ramesses the Great
(Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2016)To my mind, the simplest, most straightforward answer is that the Israelites were in Egypt during Ramesses’s reign. Many of them––especially if they worked in Ramesses’s new residential capital––would have heard the title ... -
Prayer, Literacy, and Literary Memory in the Jewish Communities of Medieval Europe
(Philadelphia: Penn Press, 2011)Our knowledge and understanding of the popular history of the Jews in Christian Europe during the high Middle Ages has been significantly enriched in recent years, largely due to new archival research.1 Nonetheless, large ... -
Preface: Jewish Religious Architecture: From Biblical Israel to Modern Judaism.
(Leiden: Brill, 2019)Jewish Religious Architecture is the first volume in a new series in Jews, Judaism, and the Arts inaugurated by Brill. Ilia Rodov of Bar Ilan University and I are the editors of the Jewish Art and Visual Culture section, ... -
Prefaces to paperback and hardcover editions & Acknowledgments
(Wayne State University, 2000)Prefaces to both paperback and hardcover editions of the author's work. -
Preservation, Creativity, and Courage: The Life and Works of R. Meir of Rothenburg
(New York, Jewish Book Council of the National Jewish Welfare Board [etc.], 1992)The rabbinic cultureof medieval Ashkenaz (northern France and Germany) produced a series of outstanding scholars who in turn led their students and communities in matters both spiritual and temporal. Four major studies ... -
The problem of exile in Medieval Jewish-Christian polemic
(YU Press, 2020)The Jewish condition often encapsulated in the term exile played a major and to some degree exceptional role in exchanges between Jews and Christians in medieval and early modern times. A recurring observation in scholarly ... -
Prognostication in Medieval Jewish Law and Legal Thought
(De Gruyter, 2020)The three major codes of Jewish law composed during the medieval period, Mishneh Torah by Maimonides (d. 1204, in Egypt), Arba’ah Turim by Jacob ben Asher (d. ca. 1340, in Spain), and Shulḥan ‘Arukh by Joseph Karo (d. ... -
Progress and Tradition in Medieval Ashkenaz
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000)Intellectual historians have identified differing attitudes toward the notion of progress among the churchmen of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in western Europe. The present study aims to trace the views of rabbinic ... -
Proto–Canaanite Serpent Spells in the Pyramid Texts: A First Look at the History of Hebrew in the Third Millennium B.C.E.,
(General of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, 2008)םיטסקטה ראש לכמ הברהב םימודק הלאה םיטסקטה םנמז תב ,נ"הספל עבראו םירשעה האמה ןמ איה סנוא לש הדימריפה .ונידיבש תידכאבש הלא ונייהד ,תיחרזמ תימשב רתויב םימודקה םיפוצרה םיטסקטה קר ונל תנתונ תאזה הדימריפה .תיאלבאו terminus ... -
R. Jacob Emden, philosophy, and the authority of Maimonides
(RCA, 1993)Beginning with the period shortly after his death in 1204, Maimonides was recognized as a pre-eminent authority in matters both halakhic and philosophical whose opinions could not simply be dismissed. Already in the ... -
R. Judah "he-Hasid" and the Rabbinic Scholars of Regensburg: Interactions, Influences, and Implications
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006)Scholars of Hasidei Ashkenaz during the last hundred years have paid little attention to sections 1592 and 1593 in the Parma edition of Sefer Haoidim (hereafter SH)} To my mind, however, these sections shed considerable ... -
R. Tobia de Vienne et R. Yehiel de Paris: la créativité des Tossafistes dans une période d’incertitude
(Alliance israélite universelle, 2011)Dans son chapitre sur les principaux Tossa¬fistes français du milieu du XIIIe siècle, Ephraim E. Urbach, eminent biographe des Tossafistes, cite en bonne place R. Yehiel ben Joseph de Paris et R. Tobia ben Eliahu de Vienne, ... -
The rabbi as Judaica scholar
(J. Aronson ; Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, 1991)Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter makes a powerful case for the rabbinic benefits to be drawn from a familiarity with modern Judaic scholarship, as well as contemporary literature. While the study of Torah, traditionally defined, ... -
Rabbi Jacob Emden's Iggeret Purim
(Cambridge UP, 1984)Rabbi Jacob Emden ( 1697-1776) wrote many works defending his position in his heated controversy with Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschutz in the middle of the eighteenth century. One major treatise, extant but hitherto unpublished, ...
